C# - how to inject, mock or stub DateTime for unit tests
In this post I will demonstrate how you can stub the DateTime struct in your unit tests. Most commonly the method DateTime.Now or DateTime.UtcNow »
What is the lock statement (monitor) in C#? and what you should look out for
In this post I will show how the lock statement in C# works and what you should look out for when using it. It is well »
Asp.net websockets - sending messages back and forth between client and server
My previous post on websockets on how to stream messages to a client has become quite popular. I felt that I left this halfway when I »
Asp.net core - How to make a controller action receive text/plain content as a string - which also works in swagger
I have recently had to make an endpoint in asp.net core that receives text/plain content - or raw text as you may call it. »
C# - How to make a list of tuples with named values
I found it hard to find a webpage showing a simplistic way to create named value tuples in a list. Most of the examples I could »
Why boolean names should be positive and not negative
This post may seem like sub optimization to some, however high readability of code makes code easier to understand and thereby change. In my opinion, great »
.Net core HttpClient - how to set content-type for a request
For some reason I can never remember how to make a POST or PUT request with a content-type other than JSON or XML. For JSON and »
C# - How to read all lines in a file to an array or list
In C# it is quite convenient to read all files to an array. You can use the method ReadAllLines() from the File class, all it needs »
C# - Trim() String using a string instead of a single char
Today I found that C# does not have a built in method for trimming strings using another string. The built in method for trimming strings does »
xUnit - how to check if a call does not throw an exception
If you are moving from NUnit to xUnit, you will likely encounter the absence of the DoesNotThrow method in xUnit. You are looking for something that »